looking for the best sandy mobo which would you get ??? 1. asus maximus IV extreme - £300 2. gigabyte UD7 - £260 3. asus P8P67 Deluxe - £190 4. Asus Sabertooth - £165 thanks
problems with booting, cold booting, memory recognition, CPU recognition, blue screens...seems like every other day someone is complaining on bit-tech or other places on the web about their sandy bridge asus boards. i havnt seen a fraction as many issues with the gigabyte guys (yes, im biased )
What's the plan for the system it's going into? I'd only get a RoG board if you're planning to hook it up to a laptop via the RoG port or SLi or the like... The B3 MSI's are available now... the UD4 has also got some good feedback.
Asus sell so many more boards to enthusiasts than the other companies. I very much doubt they have "more" problems, they just sell more.
Um, if my experience is being used as one of the references for faults, sorry but it isn't mobo "faults" specifically. I bought memory that gets to 1600 via xmp profile, not via jedec spec. not the mobo's fault. Corsair couldn't even sticker them correctly! The cold boot issue was, I'll acknowledge, something that should never have been there but is addressed by a single bios setting. EFI is still relatively new, this is my first ever EFI bios, as is the whole automatic overclock thing. Since new I've had one BSOD, apparently a bad read from filesystem so far as I can tell.
I must confess i have never once used the RoG Connect. But it's nice to think it's there. (I'd forgotten until you reminded me then).
The guys responding to my post (views on amd,s 1100T) tempted my mate to go over to sandybridge and recomend these msi boards...which will be sorted soon read this http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/02/25/msi-ships-fixed-sandy-bridge-motherboards/1
Mine's running perfectly dude...only bluescreens I've had were due to lack of voltage. Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk
Ive held off saying this but my asus P8P67 pro has been fine. And have had a 2600k @4.2 usually at full load 24/7 for folding. Watch it suddenly self destruct
It's because Asus fully implimented EFI while Gigabyte hack it and used the old BIOS system... Also as stated, Asus sell way more boards than anyone else... Also, i'd wait until BT & CPC retest the new chipsets.
ill take my 100% stable "hacked" bios than an unreliable "pretty" bios any day....but maybe thats just me
After Intels announcement, I think ASUS decided to go on vacation till the new chips came out. I'm normally the biggest asus supporter, but the amount of crap I've had to deal with in order to get my sandybridge setup OC stable has left me a bit dissapointed. It's taken a lot of problem solving in the various OCing communities, but I think most of the bugs have been mitigated somewhat.
